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1. Red Webs got butchered a bit more than what I was expecting. Even though most of us knew they'd chop it up, I wasn't expecting Ryukishi to let that much slide. Considering of course that some of it was redundant on Evatrice's part it was expected, but still felt like a lot of the more important reds were removed.

2. This is likely the first time I'm really going to complain some about the music direction. For most of the episode the music direction was great, but as for the ending... yeah I wanted a specific track but didn't get it. Oh well.

The Good:

1. Jessica's and Kanon's final moments together had great emotional impact, as was Beatrice's... last stand.

2. Battler's face-off with the Siestas as they scan his resistance which goes above and BEYOND 9000 was GAR in every imaginable level. Fantastic endless 9.

Although I find her VN counterpart to be creepier...she had her eyes open most of the time in the anime, so the impact is kinda lost. But it was still a nice troll face.

Also, Endless Nine ftw. It's one of the things I really looked forward to in EP3.

Overall though...this episode is...not really rushed, but it feels like a crazy roller coaster ride. Too many epic scenes happening at once, and the scenes at the end of the episode didn't leave much of an impression.

It was good in some parts, at least considering the time frame.
The impact of Virgilia/Eva was dramatically lessened, not to mention the Jessi/Kanon scene.

Since I'm mostly an Ange fan, I had mixed feelings about this episode as a whole. Now the appearance of Ange alone was enough for me to love this episode, but well... although her first appearance itself had quite an impact, the last scene with Bernkastel felt too rushed for me. Of course, yes, there were limitations...but I couldn't help feeling that Ange's situation could be described more intricately.

But because Ange appeared, and overall the pace was good enough, 9/10.

GOOD THINGS
- Battler and Beato scenes were simply awesome.
- Virgilia's troll face just EPIC.
- Beato's last moment was perfect, beautiful and magic!
- The contract was in Italian *_____*
- Poor Beato D: She was staked by the Siesta too much times DDD: But awesome scene (the music too <3).
- HAPPINESS OF MARIONETTE! And I said all.
- Lambda's "Bernkastel I Love You" X°D
- Old Eva O___O
- Ange and Bernkastel scene!
- Skyscraper scene <3

New seiyuus:
Ange - Now when I hear her voice in a good subbed version, instead of that crappy RAW, I actually like it. Alot. She did a great job with "It's usless. All useless." Her voice really fits her, in every way. I'm really looking forward to seeing her in action EP 4 style ;D

Cons:
- They shortened down the whole EvatricexBattler smackdown... Kh.
- NO NET!!! NO FRICKIN NET!!! THE NET!!! THE NET OF TRUTH!!! NOOO!!!!
- *Sigh* That's the last thing we'll see of Evatrice... For now wink
- Man you suck at trolling faces DEEN xD
- No miragecoordinator ;(
- OMFG it's old Eva Dx
- I missed Wingless...

Overall impression:
I think this has to be the best episode yet. I've never watched this intense on a Umineko ep. I. Have. To. Give. This. A. 10. Yes.

Normally I don't bother rating episodes or commenting on them(would much rather lurk and watch other people argue and nitpick instead ). This episode though deserves a bunch of priase.

As an anime only viewer I was expecting a few things to happen from the preview(the new characters intro) but other than that I had no real idea what to expect. As such every moment of this episode felt like a roller coaster ride.

The only part that I felt came off a bit worse than it could have was the end, because it felt more like the ride ended with just a simple slowdown->coast->stop instead of having one last kick in it(better BGM probably would have helped the most as others I think have said).

Also as an anime only viewer I can't really comment on how much was dropped, however I can say that

Spoiler for episode 18:

the red truth trap by Eva-trice was came across as overwhlming, just by how defeated Battler acted and how pompus the kid was. Also the troll/twist was well done in the sense that it was so quick that it left me guessing if she really just tried to do that. I knew something was up when they first appeared at the gates and he read the statement saying to acknoweledge her, but I kept thinking theres no way she be that much of a jerk(well until the face).

All in all, awesome episode and if they keep this up, they may just convince that the game is indeed worth the hassle.